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[–] 21 points 6 months ago (1 child)

Not even close.

They’re suggesting that Canada won’t be able to defend its own airspace so US will have to be able to operate more freely in Canadian than they already do. They are saying that the NORAD agreement would need to be updated to accommodate this.

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  • [–] 54 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Pretty sure that is the exact explanation that Russia uses when it violates Finnish and Swedish airspace.

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  • [–] 11 points 6 months ago* (2 children)

    And neither Finland nor Sweden are at war with Russia. Bullshit scare tactic used by fucking putin yes, but it's not itself an act of war. At least, it isn't generally treated as such.

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    You seem to be applying a pretty strict definition to what is actually an arbitrary term. An act of war can be anything that any nation wants to call an act of war.

    So I guess we should probably just use some of the countries involved in the real life case we are talking about.

    Does anyone consider violation of airspace by a nations warplanes to be in-and-of-itself an act of war or at least a proactive action worthy of escalation and retaliation? Oh yeah, the United States does. And so does Russia.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

    I'm not applying a strict standard, I'm using the two examples you gave to illustrate my point that it's much more complex than they thought. Finland and Sweden aren't at war so no, at least in those two cases its not a declaration of war.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago* (1 child)

    Just kinda decided to pretend we were talking about "declarations of war" now? I can see you are either not interested in having a grown up discussion or you're genuinely unable to have one.

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